rectilineal

Example Sentences

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His city was laid out and built by Italian and French architects, a city too mannered and rectilineal for Russia, a city that announced to Europe that Russia had finally emerged into resplendent modernity.

From Newsweek

In the second place it was too rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

The E. border is nearly rectilineal, while on the W., the wall forms a bold curve.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

I began to see ways by which I might make the garden a little less rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

The ancients were aware of the rectilineal propagation of light.

From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John